See also :
African Americans --
Civil Rights (U.S.) --
Women's History
- Amnesty International
"Nobel Prize-winning grassroots activist organization ... focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination.... ".
- Best Information on the Net: Hot Paper Topics
Links to information about "hot issues" including affirmative action, censorship, the death penalty, gender issues,human rights, internet issues, smoking and tobacco, and more.
- Child Labor
- Child Labor Coalition
"A national network for the exchange of information about child labor; provide a forum and a unified voice on protecting working minors and ending child labor exploitation; and develop informational and educational outreach..."
- CRIN: Child Rights Information Network
"Guided by our passion for social and legal change, CRIN is building a global network for children's rights. We press for rights, not charity, and advocate for a genuine systemic shift in how governments and societies view children."
- Global March Against Child Labour
"A movement to mobilise worldwide efforts to protect and promote the rights of all children, especially the right to receive a free, meaningful education and to be free from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be harmful to the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development."
- UNICEF: Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse
"Protecting children from violence, exploitation and abuse is an integral component of protecting their rights to survival, growth and development."
- U.S. Dept. of Labor: Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT)
OCFT's mission is to "perform public outreach by promoting the elimination of the worst forms of child labor, and increasing knowledge and information on child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking."
- Civil Rights.org
Current issues in civil rights, focusing on policy and legislation, with hate crime information and statistics, and the "Civil Rights Monitor" journal online.
- Digital Freedom Network
"DFN supports classically liberal ideas in both the economic and the political realm. We seek to eliminate human rights violations through the implementation of the principles of freedom; robust property rights, free markets, rule of law, and legitimate democracy."
- Facing History and Ourselves
"Facing History believes that students must be trusted to examine history in all of its complexities, including its legacies of prejudice and discrimination, resilience and courage."
- GlobalLex: International Human Rights Research Guide
Links to documents, international organizations, news sources, and educational websites.
- Human Rights Watch
Information about human rights around the world today.
- An Introduction to Social Policy
"This set of web pages offers a brief outline of key topics and issues in Social Policy."
- IPL: Social Issues and Social Welfare Resources
Annotated links about various social issues.
- OneWorld.net
"A global information network developed to support communication media of the people, by the people and for the people — everywhere. Its goal is to help build a more just, global society, through its partnership community."
- Products of Slavery
Interactive map showing where slavery is involved in the production of everyday items.
- Race: Are We So Different?
"Looking through the eyes of history, science and lived experience, the RACE Project explains differences among people and reveals the reality – and unreality – of race."
- Slavery
- Anti-Slavery
International organization to fight modern slavery, including bonded labor, child slavery, trafficking, and other sorts of forced labor.
- Anti-Slavery Society
Information on slavery, forced labor, child labor, and exploitation around the world.
- Free the Slaves
"Our mission is to end slavery worldwide. We believe that ending slavery is an ambitious–and realizable–goal."
- Human Trafficking Search
Interactive maps and news about slavery, child labor, and human trafficking issues.
- iAbolish
"a non-profit organization dedicated to eradicating modern-day human bondage and to promoting a non-politicized, bias-free human rights community."
- U.S. Dept. of Justice: Human Trafficking
US DOJ information on modern slavery and human trafficking in the United States.
- UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking
"The United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) was conceived to promote the global fight on human trafficking, on the basis of international agreements reached at the UN."
- Social Statistics Briefing Room
Federal statistics about crime, demographics, education, and health.
- U.N. - Human Rights
Treaties, research guide, and other information on human rights.
- U.N. Refugee Agency
News, publications, and statistics about refugees.
- Understanding Prejudice
"Web site for students, teachers, and others interested in the causes and consequences of prejudice ... (with) more than 2,000 links to prejudice-related resources, as well as searchable databases with hundreds of prejudice researchers and social justice organizations."
- U.S. Dept. of State: Human Rights
Reports and information on human rights worldwide.
- Witness.org
"WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. We empower people to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change."
- Women's Human Rights Resources
"Introduces women's human rights law in general, emphasizes selected international and Canadian topics, and explores the interconnections between domestic and international human rights law."
- World Values Survey
"A worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change." Downloadable.
- WWW Virtual Library: Human Rights
Annotated links to sites about human rights and humanitarian affairs.
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